Mark Walsh is a contributing writer to Education Week. He has covered legal issues in education for more than two decades. He writes about school-related cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that police officers who entered a home in search of guns amid an investigation of a rumored threat of school violence were immune from a family's lawsuit alleging a constitutional violation.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a school board in Delaware, which had its practice of reciting prayers before its public board meetings struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia,

The justices ruled unanimously that the Constitution bars lawsuits against churches by their ministers, and that a Lutheran school teacher could not sue her church employer for discrimination because she was effectively a minister.

A South Carolina radio talk show host has won a round in an ongoing battle with the state school administrators group over a Freedom of Information Act request he filed. But the host appears to be losing the war.